Hélène Boullé, an Urban Woman in the New World, 1620s
Hélène Boullé came to New France in 1620. Dissatisfied as a settler, she stayed only four years in Canada. Returning to France, she founded an Ursuline Convent. A bride at the tender age of 12, Hélène Boullé was given in marriage to Samuel de Champlain, one of France’s great world explorers, and early settler of […]